Re: The w-/n-/m- alternation

At 1:53:45 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:

[...]

> Now of course *vo:- > o:- is regular in ON. But note the
> was-/ooze pair; the rule wo:- > o:- doesn't respect the
> borders it should here.

The noun <ooze> is from OE <wo:s>; spellings showing the
assimilation of /w/ to the vowel only appear in the 1500s.

Brian